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Truss model: Weldments setup

Truss model: Weldments setup - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Truss model: Weldments setup

- [Instructor] This video describes how to convert SOLIDWORKS Weldments into FEA truss elements together with the appropriate methods for loads and band conditions. We're going to recreate the F-game model that we saw in the previous truss example. That one used the alternative starting point to solid geometry instead of Weldments. So go to file open, and we choose rectangle. If you have a SOLIDWORKS version 2018 or later, than you can get this file directly from the exercise folder. Now this part contains a sketch, which we'll use to create a Weldment profile. If you're working with SOLIDWORKS version prior to 2018, or don't have this SOLIDWORKS file available, then you'll need to create this sketch in a part from scratch using the dimensions shown here. Note that origin of this sketch is at the centroid of the rectangular section. This forms the pierce point, or datum, of the Weldment profile. We're going to save the file as, and then we're going to change the type to a library…

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